That’s fair but the pressures are different for Apple than they are for you. Apple limits control of the device making it easier to plan for and control issues. Let the user do anything they want and some of them will do stupid shit and blame you for it.

It’s a boutique brand and image matters so they need to keep the karens at bay.

What will be interesting is seeing is asahi Linux comes to the neo. Apple hasn’t tried to limit Linux on the Mac, they just haven’t gone out of their way to support it either. So long as that chain of trust from boot to UI isn’t broke they seem perfectly happy with letting things work in their environment as the they planned, and outside of their environment any way you want.

You want VLANs

I have one that crashes and resets itself a lot. My settings are mainly suggestions. It’s like a windows machine in my car and I hate it. Fucking Thinkware trash.

I would love a DIY open source option but I haven’t been able to find cheap available sensors that would survive a hot car.

Then again if the security really is this bad, maybe you could jailbreak and toss your own firmware on existing cameras. Hmmm

I think your missing the point of the neo. Prices are going up everywhere, but Apple has a lock in on the parts used to make that neo from older contracts.

So while everyone is selling shit based on the current landscape, Apple can take an older cell phone chip and ram and make an entire laptop out of it. The pricing pressures are different and they will sell like crazy because the consumer market just wasn’t important anymore…until Apple wanted it.

Love or hate Apple, this is a very good thing for the consumer.

New rule: printer cartridges, ink, paper, drums, or any supply needed to operate the device may not be sold with authentication features. The printer can not know any detail about what’s put into it aside from is or is not present. Done.

KDE was wild a feral in the early days of plasma. It was heavier than GNOME. It was unstable. It was a nice visual refresh but functionally terrible. It’s really pulled away from that thankfully.

Voting Republican supports terrorism and that’s okay so can we drop the dramatics and call the charges out for what they really are? They inconvenienced rich people.

In other news, polymarket has a new bet on the ratio that make it back alive.

Sensible decision, since Trump will have managed to kill us off in a few years anyway.

If they can’t do it legally, they will do it illegally. Making it difficult just incentivizes resistance.

Iran has a different war strategy that the US is incredibly unprepared for. They spin up terror cells around the world using the atrocities commuted by their targets to justify their actions to impressionable people. The US keeps fighting this fight by giving them exactly the ammunition they need to keep fighting. Terror cells get fed into the mulcher but keep on coming back and the US pretends that’s a success.

I live in a hopeless country that has no desire to improve anything, just to conquer. Trump burning everything down is probably better for the world since we won’t have the power to abuse them anymore but fuck if he’s not going to kill us all in the process.

Oh no….

Anyway…

KDE and GNOME each have their shortcomings. KDE has never been completely stable for me but it’s so much better than it used to be. GNOME is the best at what it’s good at and the worst at everything else. There’s no grey area with gnome.

Cosmic looks super promising. I need to play with it.

A lot of the pieces are already there.

Decentralized, fast, light and performant, encrypted but not anonymous: Yggdrasil Decentralized, slow, obscured identity: I2P Multi-medium bridging: reticulum

For most of us, Yggdrasil solves the problem. Going decentralized takes power away from the techbros that made this shit possible in the first place. You stop using their services they aren’t going to be happy and will resist the regime that cost them money.

For spreading news that powerful people don’t wants spread, I2P. TOR has been compromised for years now. I2P isn’t perfect. It can be taken down from time to time and it’s slow as balls, but it’ll allow reporters to be safer and for any evidence to be distributed so wide they will never contain it all.

Reticulum will help users hop across multiple mediums and at this point could be usable for adapting lora stuff like meshtastic applications into the network too. It’s most useful for jumping across different modes of communication. Yggdrasil is likely going to outperform this but reticulum solves additional problems Yggdrasil itself cannot so they are both valuable.

Whereas the rest of us learned to regulate our emotions during childhood.

You know, a simple ad campaign of some brave victims coming out and saying “I spoke up. I looked at the files. I’m not in the files.” could be incredibly powerful right now.

Wouldn’t even need that at this point. I guarantee Elon has a (likely illegal) copy. Simply apply pressure and wait for him to break.

My mother is a narcissistic, divorced, bitter and scorned catholic. Let her loose in an HOA and she’ll turn it into Palestine.

I learned to let her set her own fires, let them burn down her own domain, I hide in my dark cold basement she gets sunlight and a million problems she creates. I let her stew while avoiding her bullshit.

You know damn well the GOP will weekend-at-Bernie’s this fucker. His followers will pull an Elvis-never-died-on-the-toilet. Evangelicals will say “he’s not dead, he’s sleeping” while trying to disappear him from a cave. He made everything still active in the GOP all about him. When he dies, it dies.

After November.

If he dies before the midterms, this will get so much worse.